Now playing: Yahoo Screen and PBS on your Apple TV

The slow march of content to the Apple TV continues. On Tuesday, Yahoo announced that its online video service, Yahoo Screen, is now available on Apple’s set-top box. And Yahoo’s not alone: PBS is also now streaming its shows to the Apple TV as well.

Among the biggest draws of Yahoo Screen is an extensive archive of Saturday Night Live clips, along with content from Comedy Central—including The Daily Show and The Colbert Report—as well as The Onion, Vogue, GQ, and more. Earlier this fall, Yahoo launched Yahoo Screen, an app for viewing video on iOS devices; the service still hasn’t launched on Android.

PBS, meanwhile, is offering episode of many of its popular shows, including Frontline. According to All Things D, the PBS channel will not offer live video streams, but will put up many episodes within 24 hours of broadcast. ITV’s Downton Abbey, which is one of PBS’s most popular shows, is not available on the Apple TV, due to a rights agreement with Amazon. While users don’t have to have a cable subscription to access the PBS channel, they are required to log in and identify their local affiliate.

It’s clear that the war for the living room is heating up, and while Yahoo Screen and PBS probably won’t significantly tip the scales in that fight, they do at least reaffirm Apple’s commitment to expanding the content available on its platform.

Dan Moren Contributor

Dan has been writing about all things Apple since 2006, when he first started contributing to the MacUser blog. Since then he's covered most of the company's major product releases and reviewed every major revision of iOS. In his "copious" free time, he's usually grinding away on a novel or two.More by Dan Moren